New data using wearables shows 1 type counts up to 9× more. A team led by Emmanuel Stamatakis followed 73,000 UK adults from the UK Biobank study, tracking their movement with wearable devices and linking it to major disease and death outcomes 8 years later on average.
Source: Biswas RK, Ahmadi MN, Bauman A, et al. Publisher Correction: Wearable device-based health equivalence of different physical activity intensities against mortality, cardiometabolic disease, and cancer. Nat Commun. 2025;16(1):9581. doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-65754-4.
